Paul Wight Says The Biggest Reason He Signed With AEW Was Being Able To Still Compete

Paul Wight discusses the biggest reason why he decided to sign with All Elite Wrestling, noting that he still wanted to compete in the ring.

Since signing with All Elite Wrestling, Wight has continued wrestling, albeit not as often as he has previously and has not wrestled since 2024. That being said, it was a big reason he decided to sign with AEW.

While speaking to Joey Franchize in a new interview, Paul Wight discussed the biggest reason for signing with AEW originally.

“I started with AEW and Tony Khan, the biggest thing was I could compete. That was the biggest hang-up for me. I wanted to still compete. There’s a lot of guys that are great trainers and great guys. Billy Gunn, amazing trainer. QT Marshall, amazing trainer. Despite QT’s character on TV, the guy is a great trainer and can work his butt off. understands what to get done. There’s great producers backstage. You got Daniel Bryan’s around there. Bryan Danielson’s around there a lot. So there’s a lot of, Adam (Copeland) and Christian, there’s a lot of great minds back there. That’s not my gig. My thing where I can help out is being in the ring with guys. Because you understand, when I worked and did my best work, was working five days a week for 25 years, working with all the young talents that were coming through from Kofi and Woods and Big E. All those guys, Rusev and Cesaro, all those guys I was on the road with them five nights a week. We were working and I was in there with them mixing it up, and we were learning about timing and presentation, and a lot of that stuff is where I can help the younger talent. Because while we’re in the heat of the moment, I’ll notice, ‘hey, did you feel that? Did you hear that? This is why we did this.; When you’re on the outside of the back, like young guys listen constantly in the back and they’re nice, but they really listen when you’re in the ring because there’s a connection, and I think that’s where I have a lot of value to it. Plus I have some pretty good old stories from the crazy days that pops the younger guys. So, and gals do some of the gals like the stories too. So, you know, that’s, it’s fun for me, man.”

Elsewhere in another interview, Wight teased an in ring appearance on tonight’s AEW Dynamite tapings. You can read more about that here.

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